Celebration, but to continue in the struggle and the moment to look ahead to the next 100 yea years. And 9 moment to ensure our democracy is truly representative. Over the last century, women have also fought to gain access in classrooms, board room, and elected it office, elected office. We have seen the power of womens leadership with each advance. We see that Diverse Voices and perspectives, equity and inclusion bring new ideas, new insights to the halls of power. Weve seen that right here from our Vantage Point in San Francisco, with our own representative nancy pelosi, the first and only woman to serve as speaker of the house, our two female senators and now Vice President ial candidate kamala harris. As i said earlier, i wish we could all be gathered in person together. This is not how anyone could have imagined 2020 would look. But it also reminds us how important it is to have strong and capable leaders. And how connected we are together. In honor of our ancestors, our foremoth
President Francee Covington is trying to log on. Vice president kathrin feinstein. Present. Commissioner stephen nakajo. I am present. Commissioner ken cleveland. Present. And there is a lot of feedback at least on my end. A lot of feedback. I am experiencing the same thing commissioner cleveland. I think Everyone Needs to mute mute if you are not speaking. Commissioner rodriguez. Present. And chief of department jeanine nicholson. Muted for me. I am present and if everyone can mute when they are not speaking i think that would help with the feedback. If you are not speaking, just mute. Item 2, general Public Comment members of the public may address the commission for up to 3 minutes on any matter within the commissions jurisdiction that does not appear on the agenda. Speakers shall address the remark to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or to Department Personnel. Commissioners are not to enter into debate or discussion with the speaker. The lack of a resp
Leadership with the Atlantic Council. He compared and contrasted the current president s approach to Foreign Policy to that of what joe biden would do in the white house. This is about 45 minutes. We are live from samsung studios in washington, d. C. Thank you for getting up early in his joining us on the west coast of california. Today we are going to focus on the priorities in the Biden Administration. Last night joe biden accepted the nomination for the Democratic Partys nomination for presidency of the United States. I can think of no better guess than Jake Sullivan to join us today, the day after the convention concludes to talk about major priorities of the next four years of a potential Biden Administration. Jake let me welcome you to our screen. We are delighted to have you with us this morning. Thank you for being here. Thanks for having me. The rest of our guests are familiar with Jake Sullivan but he served in the Obama Administration the National Security adviser to then Vi
Jake let me welcome you to our screen. We are delighted to have you with us this morning. Thank you for being here. Thanks for having me. The rest of our guests are familiar with Jake Sullivan but he served in the Obama Administration the National Security adviser to then Vice President joe biden are the also served as deputy chief of staff and director of policy planning for secretary of state Hillary Clinton and brings his expertise in policy to the record of having been on the president presents a campaign trail last time and this time with the biden campaign. He began his career with Amy Klobuchar and we are really divided to have them here for conversation. What is it going to look like in january 2021 when the new president takes potentially the next president comes into office with an extraordinary set of challenges and circumstances, a pandemic, and economic crisis, social justice and Antiracist Movement here, the challenging of American Values and interests abroad. This is aga
Screen. Once told, you will be invited to join the meeting as a participant. When prompted, dial star, three to speak. You will be prompted by the system when it is your turn to speak. Please anow for audio alf delays and a 30second lag time during the course of this meeting. That completes my announcement. Chair peskin thank you, ms. Milton, and colleagues, supervisor mandelman is going to be about 30 minutes late fore this meeting. Colleagues, is there a motion . Supervisor walton second. Chair peskin ms. Meltocan that without roll or how do i handle that . Because there is no quorum for this meeting, you dont need to have because there is no quorum for this meeting, you dont have to call roll for that item. Chair peskin thank you. I want to thank supervisor walton and supervisor yee for convening two weeks ago during our oneweek recess to consider and ultimately approve the onecent sales tax for our caltrain. This will provide much needed reforms and a path for long needed funding f